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The 3-Question format is the most popular format for Daily Scrum. The 3 questions focus on 3 things What did I do yesterday which helped the team get closer to the sprint goal? What will I do today which will help the team get closer to the Sprint Goal? Are there any impediments which will prevent my team to get closer to the Sprint Goal? While the first part of…

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances. As written in the EC2 post, the instance stores are temporary storage. The Instance stores may get deleted if the instance terminates or of there is a disk failure. Each EBS volume is automatically replicated within its availability zone to protect you from component failure, offering high availability and durability. Amazon Elastic Block Store…

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a primary web service provided by AWS and it provides re-sizable compute capacity in the cloud. Compute refers to the computational power required to fulfill your work. Amazon EC2 allows you to acquired compute power through launching of virtual servers called as instances. When you launch an instance, you make use of the compute power as you need. AWS charges you based on the…

What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are running applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or you’re supporting the critical operations of your business, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low cost IT resources. With cloud computing, you…

User story is one of the popular way of writing requirement in Agile. Lot of Agilists prefer the User Story format. However, that is not the only way of writing requirements in Agile projects. You could write requirements in many ways, for e.g.Use Cases, Business Requirement Specification, BDD etc Scrum is a framework. That means, Scrum describes the boundries and some minimal things that you need to do to create…

In an Agile testing team, testers must closely collaborate with all other team members and with business stakeholders. This has a number of implications in terms of agile tester skills must have and the activities they perform within an Agile team. Agile Tester Skills A tester in an Agile team should be competent in test automation, test-driven development, acceptance test-driven development, white-box, black-box, and experience-based testing. As Agile methodology depend…

Some of the options while deciding the strategy for structuring of Agile Testing teams are as follows Testers Embedded into the Development Teams : Independent testers are often more effective at finding defects. In some Agile teams, developers create many of the tests in the form of automated tests. One or more agile testing engineer may be embedded within the team, performing many of the testing tasks. However, given those…

A Deployment pipeline is an important concept in Continuous Delivery. In Deployment pipeline we break the build process into distinct stages In each stage we get feedback to move into the next stage. It is a collaborative effort between various groups involved in delivering agile software development. Often the first state in Deployment pipeline is compiling the code and converting into binaries. After that, we run the automated tests. Depending on the…

There are three steps to deploying software Creating and Managing the infrastructure in which your application will run (hardware, networking, middleware, external services) Installing correct version of your application into it Configuring the application including any data or state it requires. Creating and managing the infrastructure It is a known fact that most projects fail due to people problems rather than technical problems. Almost all medium and large companies separate…

Continuous Integration is an enormous step forward in productivity and quality for most projects that adopt it. It ensures that the teams working together to create large and complex systems can do so with higher level of confidence and control then is achievable without it. CI ensures that the code that we create (as a team) works by providing us with rapid feedback on any problems that we may introduce…